Azure Job Trends in the East of England

Microsoft Azure
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Azure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 8 6
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 634 344 799
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 9.97% 12.76% 13.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.45% 41.85% 46.70%
Number of salaries quoted 258 281 719
10th Percentile £24,000 £26,250 £28,924
25th Percentile £29,188 £32,533 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £75,000 £58,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £73,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £59,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% +5.04% -8.46%

All Cloud Computing Skills
East of England

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,693 822 1,711
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 26.61% 30.49% 28.29%
Number of salaries quoted 723 618 1,459
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,000 £25,500
25th Percentile £33,625 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile £73,875 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,871 £75,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +8.70% -11.54%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Azure job vacancy trend in the East of England

Azure
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure

Azure
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the East of England over the 6 months to 28 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the East of England region over the 6 months to 28 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Essex -4 152 £41,000 +1.23% 39
Cambridgeshire +6 140 £57,550 +15.10% 34
Hertfordshire -20 114 £60,000 +9.09% 59
Suffolk +27 91 £57,000 +14.00% 20
Norfolk +2 87 £60,000 +84.43% 22
Bedfordshire +16 48 £14,000 -73.58% 20
Azure
England

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 54 (8.52%) SharePoint
2 33 (5.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.42%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.26%) WordPress
5 7 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.79%) CMS
7 1 (0.16%) Apache
7 1 (0.16%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 86 (13.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.63%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (1.42%) Dynamics AX
1 9 (1.42%) Dynamics GP
2 7 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.79%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.32%) Infor M3
4 2 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 140 (22.08%) Power Platform
2 125 (19.72%) Microsoft 365
3 112 (17.67%) Azure AI
4 89 (14.04%) AWS
5 73 (11.51%) Entra ID
6 35 (5.52%) PowerApps
7 32 (5.05%) Power Automate
8 31 (4.89%) Azure Logic Apps
9 30 (4.73%) Azure Data Factory
10 26 (4.10%) Azure DevOps
10 26 (4.10%) OneDrive
11 25 (3.94%) GCP
12 19 (3.00%) Snowflake
13 18 (2.84%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 18 (2.84%) GitHub
14 17 (2.68%) SaaS
15 13 (2.05%) IaaS
16 10 (1.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 10 (1.58%) Dynamics 365
17 7 (1.10%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 62 (9.78%) Firewall
2 26 (4.10%) VPN
3 21 (3.31%) DNS
4 20 (3.15%) WAN
5 16 (2.52%) DHCP
5 16 (2.52%) TCP/IP
6 15 (2.37%) LAN
7 11 (1.74%) Internet
8 8 (1.26%) Wireless
9 7 (1.10%) Broadband
10 6 (0.95%) Network Security
10 6 (0.95%) SAN
11 5 (0.79%) DMZ
11 5 (0.79%) VLAN
12 4 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
12 4 (0.63%) WLAN
13 3 (0.47%) SD-WAN
13 3 (0.47%) SSL
14 2 (0.32%) Remote Desktop
14 2 (0.32%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (20.82%) Power BI
2 92 (14.51%) Tableau
3 36 (5.68%) Azure SQL Database
4 27 (4.26%) SQL Server
5 15 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (2.05%) Data Lake
7 8 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (1.26%) BigQuery
7 8 (1.26%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (1.26%) MySQL
8 7 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.95%) Looker
9 6 (0.95%) MongoDB
9 6 (0.95%) Snowflake Schema
10 5 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (0.79%) Redis
11 4 (0.63%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.47%) Big Data
13 2 (0.32%) Hadoop
13 2 (0.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 13 (2.05%) Git
2 9 (1.42%) Jenkins
3 6 (0.95%) JIRA
3 6 (0.95%) MLflow
4 2 (0.32%) Selenium
5 1 (0.16%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.16%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.16%) JMeter
5 1 (0.16%) Postman
5 1 (0.16%) REST Assured
General
1 377 (59.46%) Social Skills
2 63 (9.94%) Finance
3 25 (3.94%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (3.94%) Law
4 14 (2.21%) Public Sector
5 11 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
5 11 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (1.74%) Multimedia
6 8 (1.26%) Marketing
7 6 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (0.95%) Retail
8 5 (0.79%) Publishing
9 4 (0.63%) Banking
9 4 (0.63%) Legal
9 4 (0.63%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.47%) Advertising
11 2 (0.32%) Police
12 1 (0.16%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 180 (28.39%) Analyst
2 173 (27.29%) Junior
3 168 (26.50%) Junior Analyst
4 85 (13.41%) Security Analyst
5 84 (13.25%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 84 (13.25%) Data Analyst
5 84 (13.25%) Junior Data Analyst
5 84 (13.25%) Junior Security Analyst
6 64 (10.09%) Developer
6 64 (10.09%) IT Support
7 60 (9.46%) Ethical Hacker
8 52 (8.20%) Senior
9 37 (5.84%) Network Engineer
10 36 (5.68%) Architect
10 36 (5.68%) IT Engineer
11 34 (5.36%) Azure Engineer
11 34 (5.36%) Support Engineer
12 29 (4.57%) Lead
13 27 (4.26%) Software Developer
14 26 (4.10%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (8.20%) CSS
2 42 (6.62%) HTML
3 34 (5.36%) .NET
4 25 (3.94%) .NET Core
5 23 (3.63%) JSON
6 21 (3.31%) HTML5 Canvas
7 18 (2.84%) Microsoft Graph
7 18 (2.84%) REST
7 18 (2.84%) SPFx
8 12 (1.89%) jQuery
8 12 (1.89%) React
9 10 (1.58%) SOAP
10 8 (1.26%) PyTorch
10 8 (1.26%) scikit-learn
10 8 (1.26%) TensorFlow
11 7 (1.10%) ASP.NET
11 7 (1.10%) Kafka
12 6 (0.95%) ASP.NET Core
12 6 (0.95%) Node.js
12 6 (0.95%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 60 (9.46%) Cyberattack
2 32 (5.05%) Cloud Native
3 12 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (1.89%) Onboarding
4 11 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (1.26%) Clustering
5 8 (1.26%) Low-Code
6 7 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (1.10%) Robotics
7 6 (0.95%) Cloud Security Posture
7 6 (0.95%) Driving Licence
7 6 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (0.95%) Management Information System
7 6 (0.95%) PKI
7 6 (0.95%) Product Ownership
7 6 (0.95%) Public Cloud
7 6 (0.95%) Security Posture
8 5 (0.79%) Blog
8 5 (0.79%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 4 (0.63%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 84 (13.25%) Windows
2 57 (8.99%) Windows Server
3 13 (2.05%) Windows Server 2016
4 11 (1.74%) Linux
4 11 (1.74%) Windows Server 2019
5 9 (1.42%) Android
6 7 (1.10%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.79%) VMS
8 4 (0.63%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.47%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (33.60%) Cybersecurity
2 154 (24.29%) AI
3 134 (21.14%) Business Intelligence
4 125 (19.72%) Mentoring
5 66 (10.41%) Problem-Solving
6 61 (9.62%) Agile
7 60 (9.46%) Ethical Hacking
8 52 (8.20%) DevOps
9 47 (7.41%) Continuous Improvement
10 40 (6.31%) CI/CD
11 36 (5.68%) Analytics
12 34 (5.36%) Computer Science
12 34 (5.36%) Technical Leadership
13 33 (5.21%) Machine Learning
13 33 (5.21%) Roadmaps
14 29 (4.57%) Data Modelling
14 29 (4.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 29 (4.57%) Stakeholder Management
15 28 (4.42%) ERP
15 28 (4.42%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 164 (25.87%) SQL
2 152 (23.97%) Python
3 65 (10.25%) C#
4 45 (7.10%) JavaScript
5 43 (6.78%) PowerShell
6 24 (3.79%) PHP
7 21 (3.31%) TypeScript
8 14 (2.21%) Java
9 11 (1.74%) C++
10 10 (1.58%) R
11 6 (0.95%) Bash
11 6 (0.95%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.32%) Bicep
12 2 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 305 (48.11%) Azure Certification
2 86 (13.56%) CompTIA Security+
3 85 (13.41%) CompTIA CySA+
4 60 (9.46%) CEH
5 54 (8.52%) Degree
6 42 (6.62%) Microsoft Certification
7 39 (6.15%) Cisco Certification
8 38 (5.99%) Security Cleared
9 33 (5.21%) CCNA
10 29 (4.57%) Network+ Certification
11 24 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
11 24 (3.79%) SC Cleared
12 20 (3.15%) AWS Certification
13 11 (1.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 8 (1.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 8 (1.26%) TOGAF Certification
15 6 (0.95%) CCNP
15 6 (0.95%) DBS Check
16 5 (0.79%) DV Cleared
17 4 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (2.84%) GDPR
2 15 (2.37%) Accessibility
3 13 (2.05%) QA
4 10 (1.58%) GRC
4 10 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.26%) NIST
6 6 (0.95%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 6 (0.95%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 5 (0.79%) JSP 440
7 5 (0.79%) NCSC
7 5 (0.79%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.63%) SLA
9 2 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.32%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.16%) IFRS
10 1 (0.16%) ISO 31000
10 1 (0.16%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.16%) PMO
System Software
1 82 (12.93%) Active Directory
2 23 (3.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (2.52%) Hyper-V
3 16 (2.52%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (1.10%) Docker
4 7 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.95%) vSphere
6 1 (0.16%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 36 (5.68%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (2.37%) Terraform
3 12 (1.89%) Kubernetes
4 9 (1.42%) Ansible
5 4 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (0.63%) SolarWinds Orion
5 4 (0.63%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.16%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.16%) Grafana
6 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 1 (0.16%) SCCM
6 1 (0.16%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 440 (69.40%) Microsoft
2 168 (26.50%) ForeScout
3 37 (5.84%) Cisco
4 31 (4.89%) VMware
5 18 (2.84%) Adobe
6 17 (2.68%) Databricks
7 12 (1.89%) Fortinet
7 12 (1.89%) SAP
7 12 (1.89%) ServiceNow
8 10 (1.58%) Veeam
9 9 (1.42%) Epicor
9 9 (1.42%) SolarWinds
10 8 (1.26%) Apple
10 8 (1.26%) Aruba
11 7 (1.10%) MuleSoft
11 7 (1.10%) Salesforce
12 6 (0.95%) Dell
12 6 (0.95%) Google
12 6 (0.95%) Meraki
12 6 (0.95%) Palo Alto